Tories to build houses on the moon?
Posted by cabalamat on 2007-Oct-02
Tory housing spokesman Grant Shapps wants to build more houses:
The government says we need more homes. I agree.
But where will these new houses be built? Not in the countryside, apparently:
And as for Brown’s pledge that he would protect the Green Belt - no prizes for guessing where all those additional properties would be built. When we protest, the Housing Minister calls us “Shocking” Nimbys.
Well, perhaps they’ll be built in high-density areas, i.e. cities? No, not there either:
I pledge to you today that we’ll scrap the government’s flawed density targets which force people to live on top of one another, creating the shortage of family homes - with all the resulting social consequences. And I know that you share my concern over the practice of ‘garden grabbing’, so we’ll change planning rules to recognise that brownfield does not mean your neighbours garden.
In fact Shapps is against them being built anywhere where nimbys concerned local residents object:
This Government thinks the answer is to command housing targets from above.
And when communities object, with genuine concerns, they simply bulldoze the development through anyway.
So, in the event the Tories win the election, the houses aren’t going to be built in the cities (makes the population density higher) or in the countryside (infringes on the green belt) or anywhere where people object. Where are they going to be built then? On the fucking moon?
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